We invite you to submit your "Pedigree" for the Thorne Family Project Patriarch page. (You don’t have to be a test participant to post your family pedigree.)

There are two ways to make your pedigree available to the project administrator for posting on the Patriarch Page:1. Send the pedigree by email directly to carrie@worldfamilies.net in the simplified form described below(If you send it this way, your pedigree will only be posted on the Patriarch Page, and will not be included in the Pedigree Forum) Be sure to include Email address you wish to be posted with the pedigree Kit number of the project participant whose pedigree this is Name, birthdate, birthplace, spouse for each generation (direct male line).

2. Log-in to post your pedigree on the Pedigree Forum.By posting your pedigree on the forum, you are making it available for the Project Administrator to post it on the Patriarch Page, along with your contact information, and kit number (or code identity number).

oProvide the kit number and/or project code identity number if pedigree is for a tested participant

oUse surname with each generation

oDon’t use all caps

oDon’t include anyone whose birthdate is after 1910, for privacy concerns.

oDon’t number the generations

Scroll down to the last posting on this forum and click "reply". Post your pedigree in the box provided, and click "Post".

If you do not see a"reply" tab, it means you have lost your log in and will need to log in again in order to post. Go back to the project home page, log in again, and return to the pedigree forum. Login should hold the second time.

Peter, to Ky in 1795 with other Germans from York County, PAHenry, d 1844 in Jefferson County, KYWilliam D b 1809 in Jefferson County, KYWilliam Wesley, b 1839 in Jefferson County, KYMarcus Marion, b 1874 in Jefferson County, KYIrvin Ireland, b 1903 in Jefferson County, KYConrad Irvin, b 1933 in Portland, Oregon

Not sure how 'related' my line may be, but it is definitely a 'thorn/thorne'. The Silverthorn(e) surname can be traced to the 14th century in Glastonbury Somerset area where the "Holy Thorn" legend comes from. Many other surname variants (Whitethorne, Hawthorne, etc.) come from this same geography, taking their surnames from the popularity of this location. I have a great deal of information on this family surname, as well as the Holy Thorn, in that I assisted the publishing of a 4 volume set of books on this surname by Frank F. Reed in 1982. He was kind enough to name me 'co-author' of the English Origins, which makes up half of Volume 1.

I do try to keep data pretty current online at (work in process) link on rootsweb's world connect website:

1. WILLIAM THORNE? was born Abt. 1662, and died November 1737 in Charles Co. Maryland. 2.? JAMES THORNE? was born Bet. 1700 - 1710, and died January 22, 1767 in Prince George's MD. 3? THOMAS THORNE? was born March 27, 1735 in Somerset, Stepney Parish, Maryland, and died Abt. 1780 in Piscataway, MD 4? HEZEKIAH THORN was born July 3, 1763 in Piscataway, MD, and died September 21, 1845: buried in Flint Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Fort Mill, SC.? He married (1) MARY ELIZABETH CROWLEY.? She was born 1770, and died 1821.? He married (2) ELLENOR (NELLY) WADDELL Abt. 1790.? 5? JESSE THORN? was born 1808 in York Co.( District) South Carolina, and died Aft. June 1880 in Jonesboro, Ark.? 6? HARVEY JONES THORN? was born October 25, 1837 in South Carolina, and died December 8, 1876 Harrisburg, Ark.7? JESSE ANDREW J. THORN, b. October 28, 1862, Harrisburg, Arkansas; d. February 28, 1919, Harrisburg. Arkansas8 CLYDE REDDEN THORN? was born May 13, 1910 in Harrisburg, Arkansas, and died March 6, 1992 in Batesville, Ark

All of the family through Enoch THORN are proven in "Genealogies of Long Island FAmilies." Enoch down through Thomas James THORN are in the THORN Bible Records. Others are birth certificates, Marriage licenses, Bledsoe Bible records. I may have left out something but all are documented.

Chriss, Thanks for posting your pedigree. ?On the Patriarch page we usually list only those that are deceased and born before 1930. ?If any of those you have posted are deceased that were born after 1930 I would be glad to post them. ?You may view your posting on the patriarch page. ?Elmer Thorn Administrator.